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Living in the past
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2017-04-19 at 9:11 PM UTC
Originally posted by Malice Dude, life was so fucking bad back then. You have no idea. Damn near everyone lived an extremely shitty life. Until relatively recently (internet/digital age) I most likely would have committed suicide by this point. Not that it's a bad thing, just opting out of a bad deal, a fool's errand.
I DO have an idea. So do you. It's quaint to think about the mundanity of those times. At the same time, it perhaps allowed them to absorb more of what they were reading about or discussing. I mean of course it did.
Imagine if the internet died tomorrow except for this site and only those ofus registered here for at least the last 6 months were the only ones with final access to this platform of discussion. See we'd have all these things to talk about even if the information wasn't still coming in, but the cavemen, what could they have to talk about all day long, and why did they grunt if they had all that spare time to talk words? Haha. -
2017-04-19 at 9:14 PM UTC
Originally posted by mmQ I DO have an idea. So do you. It's quaint to think about the mundanity of those times. At the same time, it perhaps allowed them to absorb more of what they were reading about or discussing. I mean of course it did.
Imagine if the internet died tomorrow except for this site and only those ofus registered here for at least the last 6 months were the only ones with final access to this platform of discussion. See we'd have all these things to talk about even if the information wasn't still coming in, but the cavemen, what could they have to talk about all day long, and why did they grunt if they had all that spare time to talk words? Haha.
The Gods, i imagine and the stars. -
2017-04-19 at 9:17 PM UTC
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2017-04-19 at 9:18 PM UTC
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2017-04-19 at 9:20 PM UTC
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2017-04-19 at 9:26 PM UTC
Originally posted by Sophie They didn't grunt noob. Homo Sapiens(Us) talked.
Communication via spoken language probably started in a very basic way. One of the first "words" was probably a sound our ancestors made when something scared them, and over time we associated that sound with a more specific meaning like "danger!", "tiger!", or something like that. -
2017-04-19 at 9:28 PM UTCThe first people obviously grunted.
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2017-04-19 at 9:30 PM UTC
Originally posted by mmQ As in a long time ago, say the 400s or 700 BCs or whenever grunting cavemen were around.
Do you ever really try and envision what life would have been like then? Movies set in these times just show you the "entertaining" parts of the day, not the other 99% where they sit around bored out of their goddamn minds.
You can read , write, talk, draw, sew, play cards depending on if they were invented by your time. What else? Just keep cleaning your house and staying busy that way?
No electricity ever. I mean I understand that if you grow up in certain conditions you are much more acclimated to them, like obviously people can't be frustrated with no electricity if they don't know electricity exists, but just the same it just seems like things would get really repetitive and dull. Reading the same ass books over and over.
What do you think? Thank you.
Remember when you were a kid and when you weren't watching TV or playing with some toy? You were imagining stuff, creating stuff, lost in "your own world" or in your mind. I imagine it would have been a lot like that, except most people probably didn't really get to sit around and "be bored" like that, they were probably too busy living / surviving / learning.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-04-19 at 9:30 PM UTC
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2017-04-19 at 9:43 PM UTC
Originally posted by Sophie Which species of hominid would you consider the first people?
Is there a specific point in time when Homo Sapiens stopped being something else and "became" H.Sapiens? Because as I understand it the evolution of a new species from an older version is very slow and involves some overlapping. It's not like modern people just appeared one day spontaneously with a complete vocabulary. -
2017-04-19 at 9:46 PM UTC
Originally posted by Open Your Mind Is there a specific point in time when Homo Sapiens stopped being something else and "became" H.Sapiens? Because as I understand it the evolution of a new species from an older version is very slow and involves some overlapping. It's not like modern people just appeared one day spontaneously with a complete vocabulary.
I suppose, but by the time we shared the planet with Neanderthals i think we already had the brain development suitable for complex speech. -
2017-04-19 at 9:51 PM UTCSure, but the idea of "the first people" is not a very good one. We've really always been here, just changed over time.
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2017-04-20 at 1:48 AM UTCI can't believe no one posted this.
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2017-04-20 at 1:51 AM UTCI wonder how racism played a role in the stone ages. I mean would people be hatin if I was smashin some african girl back then? Or was racism invented along with working automobiles and Television?
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2017-04-20 at 2:58 AM UTC
Originally posted by RestStop I wonder how racism played a role in the stone ages. I mean would people be hatin if I was smashin some african girl back then? Or was racism invented along with working automobiles and Television?
All the people of the Earth looked Oriental in appearance way back then. Kind of like Huns, just less clothing. -
2017-04-20 at 3:55 AM UTCWow, all y'all niggas clueless af.
War has always been man's greatest pastime.
"Welp, we've built a purdy nifty lil society here. Now, let's go see the world, fuck bitches, and get money."
Almost all aspects of large "civilized societies" revolved around waging war and expanding culture. If you were a grown man during that time period, then you were most likely to be a warrior, unless you were a weiny. Then, you'd be a farmer or some such shit. -
2017-04-20 at 5:12 AM UTC
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2017-04-20 at 5:15 AM UTC
Originally posted by HampTheToker Wow, all y'all niggas clueless af.
War has always been man's greatest pastime.
"Welp, we've built a purdy nifty lil society here. Now, let's go see the world, fuck bitches, and get money."
Almost all aspects of large "civilized societies" revolved around waging war and expanding culture. If you were a grown man during that time period, then you were most likely to be a warrior, unless you were a weiny. Then, you'd be a farmer or some such shit.
If true, it only demonstrates the vileness of the human race and the immorality of creating more.
But I do believe the species is inherently quite violent, subdued only by modern institutions and cultural developments (That's right, it's always or all genetics, Lanny. Of course, anarcho-neckbeardautismocapitalism would not be free reign/chaos, as it is often misrepresented. Wouldn't even need to assume the goodness of culture, that's why private defense is such an integral part.), and this aligns with my view of the practical immorality of creating more of my most hated species. -
2017-04-20 at 5:17 AM UTCThats how humans are supposed to live we got to the space age to fast our bodies cannot handle all this tech and zero gravity pharmaceuticals. I can't sleep man but I need to work so im gonna end up doing a mass zhootie, its what the jedis want. i DON'T GET IT!
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2017-04-20 at 12:48 PM UTC
